overcold

Adjective

1. Excessively cold.
   • application of over-cold Medicaments - 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
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